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Chrome DevTools for coding agents

⭐ Very popular: 49k stars, gaining about 569 a week

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repo profile

vintage 2025 1 year old
delivery library
language TypeScript
license Apache-2.0

momentum

total stars 49k
stars added last week +569
weekly downloads 2M /wk · npm
used by 366 repos & packages
commits / week 29 accelerating · +68% vs prior mo
issues closed 88% ~3d to close, median
contributors 117 (+7 in 15d)
release cadence fortnightly
last activity today

durability

backing company-owned Google
openness permissive
bus factor 3 concentrated
top-author share 33% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 4k/mo (+53%/mo) · + 42k total since PR#18

why it's a big deal

  • Official Google/Chrome team project, first-party support and reliability.
  • Works with all major AI coding tools: Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, and more.
  • 26 tools covering input automation, navigation, emulation, performance profiling, network inspection, and debugging.

under the hood

  • Built on Puppeteer for reliable browser automation with automatic wait handling.
  • Supports headless mode, custom Chrome channels (stable/canary/beta/dev), and WebSocket connections with custom headers.
  • Can connect to already-running Chrome instances via remote debugging port or auto-connect (Chrome 145+).

our take from PR#25, 2026-01-14

star history

PR#18 · 7k PR#25 · 21k49k now Sep 2025Aug 2026
  1. PR#18 7k 2025-10-01
  2. PR#25 21k 2026-01-14
  3. now 49k + 42k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Output and attention are roughly in balance.

+1 understory score output 83 · clout 82
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#25 2026-01-14 on the radar

    Chrome DevTools for coding agents

  • PR#18 2025-10-01 below the radar

    Expose Chrome DevTools safely to coding agents

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